Full screen new iPad and 3rd gen apple tv

Welcome to the Apple community.

The new Apple TV fully supports full screen airplay. I assume you therefore refer to mirroring, which cannot be full screen. A TV screen has an aspect ratio of 16:9, the iPad has aspect ratio of 4:3, the iPhone has an aspect ratio of 3:2, as you can see neither of these devices are going to fully fill al TV screen, without stretching. Of course nobody wants to watch a distorted picture.

Resolution and aspect ratio are two diferent things. The iPad resolution may be higher, but it is still a 4:3 display, whereas your HDTV is 16:9. If you really want to fill the screen you have the option of changing this via your TV settings.

Your cable box probably has an option to zoom. If your TV has similar settings you can do the same thing, however by doing so you will cut off off the edges of the video and may miss some of the action that takes place on the full screen.

Just goto your audio/video settings on your ATV and choose the correct setting. Don't let AUTO choose for you and you will be good to go. 🙂

I hope this helps. This will allow your airplay mirroring to fill the whole screen and not just a portion.

Those apps have been specifically enabled to fill the screen. You will have to refer to your TV manual but on my set there is a setting that says 'wide fit' . You don't want to change the resolution and it's already mirroring 4:3, what you're looking to do is stretch the I image to fill your screen. Just note that it may look distorted and certain apps may get cut off